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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

PAOLO FIDANZA (B. 1731)

Set of twenty-seven heads from 'The Disputa'

c.1757-1785

Etching | RCIN 852389

A set of twenty-seven etchings reproducing the heads of some of the figures depicted in the fresco of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted by Raphael around 1508-09 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Each print is lettered along the bottom margin and numbered at top right. Probably from "Tetes choisies de personnages illustres..." published by Paolo Fidanza in Rome in 1785. 

Paolo Fidanza became famous for publishing six volumes of prints of heads after Raphael between 1757 and 1763.
  • Creator(s)

    Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731) (etcher)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731) (designer)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Disputa